Re: pen-l etiquette

2001-07-08 Thread Chris Burford
At 07/07/01 09:12 -0700, you wrote: >Chris, you have "refuted" Lou P. twice this morning. Please, he is no >longer here, so this does no good now. Well Lou no doubt browses and also considers how best to use his time. He has promoted his list as a internet feature and wishes to be influential.

Re: Re: pen-l etiquette

2001-07-07 Thread Michael Perelman
Chris, you have "refuted" Lou P. twice this morning. Please, he is no longer here, so this does no good now. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: pen-l etiquette

2001-07-07 Thread Chris Burford
Out of a desire to let things settle I did not raise this at the time but I want firmly to refute a suggestion that Louis Proyect suspended his involvement in this list, because he was being baited, in case he returns, but unfortunately with this an assumption. His return after a period of tho

Re: pen-l etiquette

2001-06-21 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
>Louis writes: >Au contraire. This is a bait: > >"If Louis Proyect and others cannot be given the opportunity of >differentiating themselves from positions they consider liberal or social >democrat, they might logically be obliged to withdraw from such a list as >this, whic

Re: Re: Re: pen-l etiquette

2001-06-21 Thread Michael Perelman
It really does not matter who said what at this point. We should be more concerned about what goes on in the future. On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 09:56:05AM -0700, Jim Devine wrote: > Louis writes: > Au contraire. This is a bait: > > "If Louis Proyect and others cannot be given the oppor

Re: Re: pen-l etiquette

2001-06-21 Thread Jim Devine
Louis writes: Au contraire. This is a bait: "If Louis Proyect and others cannot be given the opportunity of differentiating themselves from positions they consider liberal or social democrat, they might logically be obliged to withdraw from such a list as this, which would

Re: pen-l etiquette

2001-06-21 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
> >Nobody is trying to bait you. >> >>Yoshie > >Au contraire. This is a bait: > >"If Louis Proyect and others cannot be given the opportunity of >differentiating themselves from positions they consider liberal or social >democrat, they might logically be obliged to withdraw from such a list as >

Re: Re: pen-l etiquette

2001-06-21 Thread Louis Proyect
>Nobody is trying to bait you. > >Yoshie Au contraire. This is a bait: "If Louis Proyect and others cannot be given the opportunity of differentiating themselves from positions they consider liberal or social democrat, they might logically be obliged to withdraw from such a list as this, whic

Re: pen-l etiquette

2001-06-21 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
>I have no objections to being baited, provoked or whatever. Nobody is trying to bait you. What's been going on are theoretical disagreements, which may or may not have political implications. Folks can have very different theories and yet come to the same practical political conclusions on m

Re: pen-l etiquette

2001-06-21 Thread Louis Proyect
Jim Devine: >means by a "communist party" doesn't it?) If Louis is so sensitive that he >can't respond to a comment that says he's wrong on a highly specific >empirical issue, he should leave the list. But I don't think he is that >sensitive. Julio's comment in no way can be described as an ins

pen-l etiquette

2001-06-21 Thread Jim Devine
[was: Re: [PEN-L:13739] Re: Re: Re: Calling an end to S. Africa thread?] I see nothing wrong with Julio's assertion. He didn't say that Louis was a bad person or had bad intentions or anything like that. He didn't _characterize_ Louis' opinions at all. All he did was make an assertion of _fact